Features of unseen prose - SS3 Literature Lesson Note

The following are some of the features of unseen prose ;

(i) Suspense - This technique involves the  creating of expectation through deliberate delay of information. it is commonly used to provoke reader participation,

(ii) Foreshadowing- By this device a writer provides hints in the story about a further happenings. it gives the reader an intimacy on an event which is to follow on later in the action.

(iii) Interior Monologue: This involves a charater talking alone. It is mostly used in drama  where it is called a dramatic monologue . it is also known as a "stream of consciousness" and it perfect form. 

(v) Dialogue : Mostly used in drama dialogue involves a verbal exhange between two or more people in a work of art.

(vi) Diagression: This is a narative technique that involves delibrate presentation that of ideas or situation which do not involve the main pilot.

(vii) Point of view: This refers to the angle or perceptive from which the story is told. it underscores the use of narrator or story teller who could be the author or is characterizes are told through any of the following:

participant point of view (1st person narrative techniques)
Non- Participant point of view - The third person , narrative method e.g using (He, she and they)- ominiscent point of view : Method of story telling that give narrator the all knowing power of God and could see the inner recesses of the character

Parable: This is a short fictitious story tel moral or religious principles.

Myth: traditionally , it means stories about gods or contrived scope of reasoning.